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AUS GOVERNMENT TO TARGET ILLEGAL OFFSHORE BOOKMAKERS A national working group will be established by Australia’s federal government to tackle illegal offshore wagering on racing and sports. The Illegal Offshore Wagering Working Group will be established under the Australian Government’s Gambling Industry Advisory Council and will include representatives from the racing industry, professional sports and...
IVANHOWE LOOKS FOR HAT TRICK Munich stage the G1 Pastorius Grosser Preis von Bayern today, with Ivanhowe (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) looking to supplement his success in the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden. Gestut Schlenderhan’s 4-year-old surprised many in that Sept. 7 feature when upstaging Sea the Moon (Ger) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) by three lengths before...
ZEBEDEE TO SHUTTLE NEXT YEAR Zebedee (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Europe’s leading first-season sire by number of wins with 38, will shuttle to Cornerstone Stud in South Australia for the 2015 Southern Hemisphere season in a deal brokered by Johnny McKeever and Chris Blomeley of BBA Ireland. Zebedee, who stands Northern Hemisphere at Tally-Ho Stud in...
BALLYLINCH RIDING VEGA HIGH By Emma Berry Following one of the strongest years of bloodstock auctions in recent times many will be approaching the foal sales with optimism, but few have the right to feel quite so positive as the team at Ballylinch Stud. Terrific results at the sales and on the track, plus a...
By Steve Sherack After just failing to reach his reserve when the bidding stalled at $145,000 at this year’s Barretts March Sale, the brain trust at Pegasus Training Center decided to hold on to Prime Engine (Northern Afleet) and prepare him for a late summer/early fall campaign. With a pair of daylight wins by a combined margin...
The opportunities to purchase daughters of top broodmare sire Darshaan (GB) will become ever scarcer, so it was no surprise to see Derrinstown Stud’s Tanaghum (GB) (lot 1199), the dam of G3 Curragh Cup winner Tactic (GB) (Sadler’s Wells), attract a bid of €250,000. The added bonuses that the mare was listed-placed herself, has produced five...
TATTS DECEMBER GETS UNDERWAY Monday By Kelsey Riley The Tattersalls December Sale kicks off its nine-day stand at the Park Paddocks in Newmarket Monday with a single-session yearling catalogue that has attracted 247 lots, including the last yearling ever to be offered by the late great Montjeu (Ire), as well a colt by champion sire...
By Ben Massam Taris (Flatter), a “TDN Rising Star” purchased for $2.35 million by Simon Callaghan at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, has already adapted to training at Santa Anita and demonstrated her considerable ability in the mornings, according to the California-based conditioner. “She’s been doing great,” said Callaghan. “She fits into the routine really well out here in...
ROYALTY ON OFFER BY HIGHCLERE By Aisling Crowe Highclere Castle may be best known to television viewers the world over as Downton Abbey but, in reality, the 300 acre estate in Berkshire, England is home to aristocracy of a different nature. In 1902 a stud farm was established on the land by the Fifth Earl...
NEW SALES, RECORD FOAL FOR GOFFS IN 2014 A €1.8 million record-priced foal and two new sales were a few of the highlights of a strong 2014 for Goffs. The sales company’s total turnover of €109,670,464 was up 10% from last year, when it was up 45% from 2012. The average for 2,780 horses sold...
by Rob Burnet, Thoroughbrednews.com.au As was widely reported last week, Sydney’s leading trainer Chris Waller was fined A$30,000 by a Racing NSW stewards’ panel, chaired by chief steward Ray Murrihy, over a positive sample of the prohibited substance furosemide. The sample was taken from Junoob (GB) (Haafhd {GB}) after the gelding’s win in the G1...
by Bill Finley The GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile didn’t provide Eclipse voters with anything definite. And it doesn’t figure that today’s Los Alamitos Futurity, the last Grade I race of the year for this division, will either. The race drew just five horses and the only stakes winner among them is No Problem (Munnings), who...